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China.
This country is amazing to me.
Far, far away from dear old West, from good old Europe, finally I welcome myself to the new Asia, Asia running, pawing, grows and changes very quickly, much more 'rapidly than the Our eye European aware, one eye half closed sometimes lazy sometimes.
In these 4 weeks I have learned many things, I had some great surprises and I got confirmation that my theory of relativity 'complete works, rather it is necessary to understand what' and that 'so far from us.
I did not know what to expect from this country, maybe I was just frightened by the many comments and news circulating partial "BEYOND 'wall" so I went on tiptoe, trying not to get kicked out just like a fool, afraid of the whole this police and all this censorship.
In fact, the first approach with the police and 'was intimidating, the subversive material of which I have (2 books on Buddhism, one of which donatomi by a Mongolian lama) I have been confiscated at customs, with the excuse "in this country religion is not allowed."
From then on I began to understand the mentality 'of these people, accustomed for centuries to be ruled by tyrants who ever worked for the alleged good of the people, in fact, is not' easy hold off 1.3 billion people, it seems the only possible way to maintain order and 'impose strict rules and mute the speaker too.
So the rule and 'this' in China are free to do what you like, just follow the rules, otherwise I'm sorry but you cut your hands, and' the rule. "
translating this sentence in 2008 in reality 'there is not much worry, I saw a lot of foreigners who moved here to work and I saw them well clear, in fact privileged in the midst of this flood of almond-shaped eyes in a row.
All these rules are not afraid to capitalism!
The mentality 'China does not conceive of even the concept of jumping the queue or not to pay the bus ticket, then all these little chinese are good and polite and respect the rules for the common good, spit on the ground in such compensation from the depths scatarrando intestine and scream, you scream in your face all the time, worse than a casino at the feast of scraps of Castellammare di Stabbia!
say that the objective of the average Chinese and 'to be equal to his fellows, and that socialism low and 'deep-rooted and it really works, that's why everybody respects the rules, everyone wants the same things and all do the same photos in the same places and all go for a pee at the same time, are Chinese!
For them, copy and 'be like, and then' we are all beautiful and happy!
often I wanted to take a test a little, but then I realized that after all this, and 'their kind, and' their company ', as much as we want to differentiate ourselves and the alleged individualism customize up to' end up being all custom and then, basically, all the same.
I spoke with many well-educated Chinese, and everyone, and say all they gave me the exact same answers about what they think of China and the world laffuori, intelligent answers, practical and functional on the Chinese and be 'cool' as opposed to what we think in Europe.
This equality has stunned me, will 'micca result of a regime?
Perhaps but it 'was interesting to see how they see us, we who believe the beautiful, clever and rich are not the only ones apparently!
I find slaves chained to cutters and found incravattati business man on electric scooters darting in absurd traffic between SUVs and decrepit carts.
might be the only phone with the other hand, are the most unlucky, almost all young people have a PDA and a stylish brushed, in sharp contrast with my reddish beard, who nevertheless likes to local teens!
might be the only tourists in some remote areas and behind me instead of one thousand Chinese holiday Hooch well equipped and ready to spend their yuan in suovenir all the same!
I see atheism and instead ruling Buddhist, Daoist and Muslims in their traditional attires they exchange phone numbers together and buy shoes and eat chicken wings at KFC.
So according to them the great majority of Chinese and 'free, happy and with some money in his pocket, and is overtaking the old and clumsy Europe and a bite to eat in the U.S., the hated here (at least one thing we agree) GW Bush
To finish this pathetic attempt to explain China comforts me in a few lines to say that here there is no true or false right or wrong, there are only points of view, and ours is' only one point of view, sometimes quite blurry , and their and 'a point of view, sometimes a bit too much ... Chinese!
Obviously I've only seen a small part of this giant country and told her what my eyes have seen, basically generalize and 'stupid not only impossible, other backpackers told me the opposite to my experiences and views different from mine.
What I'm trying to do and 'detach and studied the history of the ordinary and we pretend to know nothing, avoiding acrimonious debates and endless I prefer to stay neutral and see with their almond-shaped eyes for a while ', the end and' fun!
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